Tara Stiles

Stiles and Strala partnered with CMG in Paris, which offers Strala classes at the clubs daily, and is the most successful branded program the club has ever launched. Stiles and CMG Strala program has expanded to Silhouette in Geneva and London in early 2015.

Strala's first partner studio was Strala Seattle. Strala Singapore, Strala Barcelona and Strala Tokyo opened in 2015.

Her goal is to make yoga more accessible. "People need yoga, not another religious leader. Quite often in New York, they want to be religious leaders, and it's not useful," she explains. "I was never invited to the party anyway—so I started my own party." Too many people outside yoga, she believes, see it as "something Jennifer Aniston does." Fonda has praised "her ability to make yoga accessible to people who might be scared of it or think it might be too esoteric." Stiles says she receives letters regularly from people, such as military men, who do her videos but are afraid to go to a yoga studio. "This studio is the first place I have felt comfortable," one Strala student told The New York Times. "It doesn't feel like it's all 26-year-old former dancers."

In 2013, Tara moved publishing houses to Hay House. She appears on the Hay House speakers circuit, and is one of their most popular authors, part of the next generation of leaders in the field of wellbeing. Make Your Own Rules Diet was released November 10, 2014 by Hay House. Make Your Own Rules Cookbook was released Nov 2015. All of Stiles' books are translated into several languages.

Stiles and Strala partnered with Millennium Partners Sports Club Management LLC to bring Strala STRONG and Strala RELAX classes to all Millennium Clubs in 2013. The partnership marks the first branded yoga ever to be on schedule in a club chain.

Stiles partnered with Reebok to design and launch Reebok Yoga in 2012. The first collection launched with Spring / Summer 2013. The range is available in select Nordstroms, Harrod's, Royal Sports, Rebel Sports, boutiques and studios, as well as Reebok retail stores, Reebok FitHubs, and on Reebok's e-commerce site. Stiles is closely involved with the design team and travels the world to support the range in each market. Reebok sends its "brand ambassadors" through Stiles' Intensive Programs, to help with brand awareness and support.

Strala launched as a style of yoga in 2010 and began holding Ready-to-Lead and Intensive Training programs at its headquarters in NYC, and around the world.

A 2009 post at HuffPo entitled "Help! I'm Addicted to Facebook", has received 1.2 million hits, making it one of the most-viewed blog posts on the site. Stiles's first book, Slim Calm Sexy, was published by Rodale in 2010.

Stiles has been the Face of Women's Health, a Rodale, Inc. publication, from April 2009 through April 2011. Stiles was also a spokesperson for Nissan Motors.

In 2008, Stiles met her husband Michael Taylor at the Ananda Ashram in Monroe, New York. "He was normal, he's straight, he does yoga ... I'm done for," she joked. After a civil ceremony in New York, they honeymooned in Negril, Jamaica.

In 2007, Tara starred in Yoga For, produced by Ford Models. Vanity Fair reported on a yoga video that Stiles specifically designed for Sarah Palin; the "Vanity Fair" reporter commented, "Tara Stiles has got to be the coolest yoga instructor ever."

Stiles was one of the first yoga instructors to use social media to attract students. The YouTube videos led to a DVD with fellow model Brooklyn Decker as well as one of her own, Yoga Anywhere: The New York Session. After leaving Ford and modeling in 2007, she blogged for Women's Health and The Huffington Post (HuffPo).